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PC Christmas
This is over a decade old, but I just discovered it. ‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck… How to live in a world that’s politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”, “Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves. And labor conditions at the North Pole Were alleged by the union…
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Been Busy…
…With my webcomic I’m Not Mad. Hope to get some more stuff up here soon. But it might be hard with the holidays and all.
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Personal Browser Usage Update
Ever since I last wrote about Opera and Chrome, some things have changed about my browsing habits. On Windows, I’ve gone from always using Flock to always using Opera. I just found out that Flock finally released version 2.0 because I wanted to check up on my facts before looking like a dork on my…
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WordPress 2.7 Released
So, WordPress 2.7 is finally here. It’s their second visual refresh in a year and I have to say they have really outdone themselves. When they did the last change, I thought “wow, there’s no way they could improve on this.” and “I thought their old interface was good, but this makes it look like…
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Review: Mandriva One 2009
Somewhere in the middle of 2008 my wife’s computer kept making very disturbing noises upon boot up. She had told me she would move to Linux when her current computer broke. So I bought her a new computer and loaded Kubuntu on it because she wanted “the version that looks like Windows”. I new she…
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WP Super Cache
My site got pounded today like a beach on a windy day when I appeared on Linux Today. So I decided to install WP Super Cache. This should display cached pages to anyone who isn’t commenting so hopefully it will help my site deal with a lot more traffic. The traffic was so bad I…
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Review: Sleepwalk with Me
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went to see Mike Burbiglia on his Broadway show “Sleepwalk with Me”. I wasn’t going to blog about it originally, but during the performance he mentioned that he gets Google alerts about himself. He used to Google himself, but then he set it up to get Google to do it…
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Loss of my first Linux box
About a month ago my wife asked me to get rid of the extra POS Linux and BSD computers I was using for my renderfarm. They quite a bit of an eyesore and so I agreed. Unfortunately, in the the group of computers I got rid of was my first ever Linux computer. It ran…
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FreshRPMs and Livna Join Forces
If you use Fedora and you want to be able to do useful things like play MP3s or DVDs you need to add an external repository like FreshRPMs or Livna. This is because MP3 playback is covered by patents in the United States, libdecss may be illegal to distribute, and a license agreement is required…
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When Being Proprietary Makes You Do Stupid Things
Recently Microsoft screwed themselves over. We have MS Money 2006 from back when I was still getting into Linux and hadn’t convinced my wife completely about how much better it was than Windows. Recently we switched to back to a credit card where we previously used to download the transactions from within MS Money. When…
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Pownce is Dead, Long Live Twitter
As I mentioned in my post Micro-blogging: One Month Later, I hadn’t really used Pownce much at all. Even now, 4 months later, I haven’t touched it. In fact, ever since that post in August, I only used it once to transfer a file to my brother. I thought there wasn’t much room on the…
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Getting Rid of Cable
This week was my last week with cable television. I’ve had it since I was around 12 years old or so. Now I’ve been on my own for a few years now and I noticed two things. One, I don’t watch much cable television. Just a few programs here and there. Two, it’s pretty expensive! …
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Kaspersky Blocking Google
Windows Antivirus product Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is blocking access to Google.com. What’s so insidious about google? Do they know something we don’t? I discovered this problem when my wife wanted to get on Google. I then spent the next 15 or so minutes trying to figure out what was going on. Found someone in…
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Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1
Today’s distro has been described as the Ubuntu of the BSD world. PC-BSD is an easy to use version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the behemoth in the BSD world and would probably have a much larger desktop presence if the BSDs hadn’t run into copyright and other proprietary problems right around when most of the…
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Fedora 10 Launches!
Linux Format Magazine already has a review. And here’s the release announcement: DATELINE: 2008-11-25 KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273 LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST (Cue J. Strauss’ “Blue Danube.”) THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure…